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Murdoch Reporters' Phone Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds	9/2/2010 4:30 PM
A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted. The British Prime Minister's current media adviser is accused of having encouraged the hacking.
Win Your Fantasy Football League	9/2/2010 4:00 PM
If it's September, it's football season — which also means it's time for millions of fantasy football drafts around the world to commence. Maximize your in-season points while dealing with the setbacks that are bound to occur by following our guide.
Video Artist Transforms YouTube's TOS Into a Paranoid Nightmare	9/2/2010 3:59 PM
The video site's ever-evolving terms of service drive an observer mad in this arty clip by Carlo Zanni. No charge for the 1984 references.
Apple TV's Meager Offerings Are Due to Business, Not Tech	9/2/2010 3:00 PM
This week’s big Apple announcement featured one big disappointment: Apple TV’s relative lack of, well, TV. Out of all of the hundreds of channels available on cable and satellite, only ABC and Fox agreed to offer their programs for rent on Apple TV. The fact that Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder in, and on the board of, Disney — owner of ABC — perfectly illustrates this digital divide.
Clustered Networks Spread Behavior Change Faster	9/2/2010 2:45 PM
Unlike infectious disease and information, behavior change spreads faster through online networks that have many close connections instead of many distant ties. Redundancy is key, as people are more likely to engage in a behavior if they see many others doing it. "There has been a lot of theory about the difference between information and behavior spreading," said economic sociologist Damon Centola of MIT and author of the study published Sept. 3 in Science. "We've assumed that they are the same, but you can imagine that behavior is not really like that, that you need to be convinced."
Exotic New Mars Images From Orbiting Telephoto Studio	9/2/2010 2:13 PM
A new batch of sharp Martian close-ups from NASA's HiRISE camera were released, and we've gathered some of the best in the gallery.
Exoplanet Shows Gas Giants Start as Dusty Behemoths	9/2/2010 2:00 PM
The atmosphere of a young exoplanet didn't fit any of our existing models for what gas giants should look like. But when astronomers added huge dust clouds, it was a perfect fit, perhaps revealing a larger truth about gas giants.
Earth's Magnetic Field Flipped Superfast	9/2/2010 1:30 PM
Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa.
Mobile Devices Need Custom Maps	9/2/2010 1:29 PM
Development Seed is engineering tools to create custom maps that work in a wider variety of situations such as natural disasters and in the developing world.
Mass Extinctions Change the Rules of Evolution	9/2/2010 1:00 PM
A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution's existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life's preordained course, or send life careening down wholly new paths.